You proved that you do not know as much about the cap as you think you do. Prior to the salary cap, Jones went out and got the deepest team anyone had. He got players to be backups that after the cap started became starters on other teams and he paid them like starters while on the Cowboys to keep them and keep them happy. Then the cap started and the Cowboys were so far over the cap that they had to let much of that depth walk and still had to renegotiate many contracts just to scrap up enough money to sign their draft choices. Then there was no rookie cap. This was all the while trying to keep a 3 time Super Bowl winning team together. Those renegotiated contracts added dead money on to the cap thus greatly reducing the amount of cap space they had to resign players and sign rookies. So the vicious cycle started. To be able to sign their stars and rookies and an occasional cheap free agent they had to renegotiate contracts every year and every year that ended up putting dead money on the cap; Now between this and free agency that kept increasing the cost for player just like today, this cycle continued until about 6 years ago when two things started. First Jerry and Stephen didn't resign some of their players so they didn't have to renegotiate contracts or least as many until eventually none and the 2nd thing was the cap started to make bigger jumps in the increases to the cap each year by moving into the 2nd half of the TV contracts that called for those bigger jumps. Even though the TV contracts are not the only factor in the formula for the cap, it is the biggest part. But there were still a couple more years where there was enough dead money to affect who they could sign. An example of how the Cowboys finally broke that vicious was when DeMarco Murry wanted this huge 5 year contract that the Cowboys won't agree to and let him walk. He signed that big 5 year contract with the eagles but after just 1 season they traded him away for just a 4th round pick to the titans who after just 2 seasons cut him and he was out of football and eventually retired. He never saw the end of that 5 year contract.
Now what this all means is because two teams, the packers and browns who had no way to try and keep up with how much Jones was willing to pay for players convinced enough of the other owners to level the playing field and start a cap. At that time there were only 2 other owners who could try to compete for players with Jones and the Cowboys but the majority of owners then couldn't so they agreed to start the cap.
Now after the last Super Bowl the Cowboys won, Super Bowl XXX, the next ten winners, actually 6 teams because of multiple wins, were teams when the cap started had some of the lowest player salaries and had money every year to replenish their teams with. All of these things have a direct bearing on why the Super Bowl wins had stopped, that and some of the coaches the Cowboys had like Gailey, Campo and Garrett..
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The proof is in the pudding.
Jerry Jones did what? Over the past 25 seasons the Cowboys have accomplushed what?
How long after Tom Landry's last appearence in an NFC championship game before he was informed, by Jerry himself, that a different coach should rebuild the Dallas Cowboys?
Whatever reason you will give me to justify his departure, now tell me why it shouldn't apply to Jerry Jones.
I said "shouldn't'" Being the owner is a sad reality, not a justification.
You think I don't know why the championships stopped? Over the past 25 seasons, what is the one common element that every one of those seasons have in common other than the fallure to reach an NFC conference championship, much less a Super Bowl.
Not important, of ciurse if you judge a team by numbers instead of hardware.
By the way, Coach Tom Landry was fired six seasons after he took the Cowbiys to an NFC championship game....three years in a row.